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Table 2 Comparison of the different parametric AFT shared frailty models based on the AIC and BIC values

From: Continued adherence to community-based health insurance scheme in two districts of northeast Ethiopia: application of accelerated failure time shared frailty models

Baseline distribution

Frailty distribution

AIC

BIC

Variance (θ)

p-value of LR test of θ = 0

Exponential

Gamma

1858.14

1945.11

0.080

 < 0.001

Inverse-Gaussian

1857.50

1944.48

0.084

 < 0.001

Weibull

Gamma

1779.42

1871.52

0.117

 < 0.001

Inverse-Gaussian

1779.13

1871.23

0.126

 < 0.001

Lognormal

Gamma

1787.85

1879.94

0.101

 < 0.001

Inverse-Gaussian

1787.45

1879.55

0.106

 < 0.001

Loglogistic

Gamma

1785.84

1877.93

0.107

 < 0.001

Inverse-Gaussian

1785.37

1877.46

0.112

 < 0.001